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Roscoe, William
(1753–1831)

Lawyer, banker and leading public figure in his native Liverpool, which
he represented in parliament 1806–1807. Roscoe was a Unitarian and a radical. He was also an expert on Italian
history and literature and collected a notable library and series of Italian paintings, as well as writing
The Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici (1796). He corresponded with Southey in 1798 on the whereabouts of
William Gilbert.